Publications by authors named "S Klausen"
Impact of skin biopsy practices: A comprehensive nationwide study on skin cancer and melanoma biopsies.
J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- - The study analyzes skin biopsy trends in Denmark over 15 years, focusing on the ratio of benign to malignant lesions and the costs associated with benign biopsies within the public healthcare system.
- - Findings show a 39.1% increase in biopsies from 2007 to 2021, with a benign to malignant ratio of 4.1:1 and significant costs for benign biopsies estimated at €6.6 million in hospitals in 2021.
- - The research highlights the importance of better pre-biopsy screening to reduce unnecessary procedures and emphasizes the need for accurate diagnosis methods in evaluating skin lesions.
Article Synopsis
- * Despite immediate surgery and treatment for a suspected haematoma, it was later revealed that the source of her issues was actually a retroperitoneal haematoma, which was missed during the first procedure.
- * The situation emphasizes the critical need to consider bleeding as a major risk in postpartum patients and the challenges posed by retroperitoneal haematomas in diagnosing and managing these cases effectively.
While there is no shortage in discussions of health assessment tools, little is known about health professionals' experience of their practical uses. However, these tools rely on assumptions that have significant impacts on the practice of health assessment. In this study, we explore health professionals' experiences with health assessment tools, that is, how they define, use, and understand these tools, and whether they take them to measure health and wellbeing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFor the past two decades anti-abortionists in the Global North have been aggressively instrumentalising disability in order to undermine women's social autonomy, asserting, falsely, there is an insuperable conflict between disability rights and reproductive rights. The utilisation of disability in struggles over abortion access is not new, it has a history dating back to the interwar era. Indeed, decades before anti-abortionists' campaign, feminists invoked disability to expand access to safe abortion.
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